Kézdiszentlélek

KÉZDISZENTLÉLEK After the first Ottoman (Turkish) attacks on Transylvania in the first half of the 15th century, the defense of the country had to be organized. Wherever there was not a castle or a fortress nearby, they pulled walls around the churches thus making them makeshift fortresses, referred to as fortified churches. This picture shows the church of Kézdiszentlélek, which was fortified with walls and circular bastions, in 1401, by Kata Apor, a local heroine. The originally gothic church of was modified tobaroque style in the 18th century.

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fortified church